Saint Augustine as a Cure for Modern Boredom

Better than most, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.) knew how restless the human heart could be. This year's Annual Augustine Lecture will focus on Augustine’s views and how that unrest is still found, particularly in the 21st century. As a people so perpetually in demand—in part due to modern technology, such as cell phones, emails and text messages—this lecture will help us find understanding in Augustine’s ideals of true rest and community, as well as the connection and calm we all seek in our lives today.

Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Director of the Edmund Campion Catholic Studies Center at Saint Louis University, Father David Meconi, who entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1992, also serves as editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review.

A former Fellow of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University, Fr. Meconi has published numerous books and articles on the early Church, and on Saint Augustine including Annotated Confessions of Saint Augustine; The One Christ: St. Augustine's Theology of Deification; and The Enemy Within: Augustine on Sin and Self-Sabotage among others. He serves on the board of the St. Benedict Forum at Hope College in Holland, MI, as well as on the ecclesiastical board of Boston College.Fr. Meconi holds the pontifical license in early church history from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, as well as a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford.